Prince Turki al-Faisal participates in meeting

New York, Sept 26, SPA -- Prince Turki al-Faisal participated here
yesterday in a meeting pertaining to the international Clinton
initiative, held under the chairmanship of former US President Bill
Clinton.
The initiative aims at finding a nongovernmental forum for discussing
the challenges facing the world in the domains of combating poverty,
improving educational syllabuses, and programs of health care.
The meeting is attended by a number important personalities including
democratic candidate Barack Obama and his repulsion opponent Johan
McCain in addition to Iraqi President Jalal Talbani and British
Premier Gordon Brown.
Prince Turki participated in the seminar which reviewed the problems
of education and urban development within the framework of the
initiative.
He briefed the participants of the seminar on the big strides made by
Saudi Arabia in the educational sector.
He noted that the Saudi officials have been giving a great attention
to the educational sector because they do believe that the youth
constitute the real wealth of the country.
As regards the problems of energy, Prince Turki said the Saudi oil
policy is based on realizing balance between the interests of the
producers and consumers.